A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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One and God make a majority.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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